Of all the criticism of the Bush administration, the criticism of the Fed's "handling" of Louisiana's problem is what makes my skin crawl the most.

I did meet some very nice people from Louisiana while teaching English in China this Summer, but I have to say that they don't deserve a state of their own. That the next time a hurricane hits, the entire state of Louisiana should be declared to be in a state of permanent insurrection (Wikipedia only offers me this ...), and federal troops should rush in to take control of every inch of that "territory".